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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT CAWTHORNE. 



Cawthorne, on the outskirts of Barnsley, with its pit shafts 

 and waste heaps, was the rendezvous of the members of the 

 Yorkshire Naturahsts' Union on Saturday, August 28th. 

 Notwithstanding the artificial excrescences on the landscape, 

 the district contains much that appeals to the naturalist. 



Under the guidance of the Rev. C. T. Pratt and Mr. W. Hem- 

 ingway, the geologists secured, from the shale heaps, beautiful 

 club-mosses and ferns, so well preserved, that even their most 

 minute structures could be examined. Some new and undes- 

 cribed forms w^ere obtained. Other sections were under the 

 guidance of Dr. Fryer and Mr. A. Whitaker, and were fortunate 

 in adding new^ species of coleoptera, mollusca, etc., to the local 

 lists. 



After tea a general meeting was held in the rooms of the 

 Barnsley Naturalists' Society, under the presidency of Mr. 

 G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. At this, reports of the day's proceedings 

 w^ere given by Messrs. Whitaker, Broadhead, Cheetham^ 

 Hutton, Morley, Lee, and Sheppard. There w^ere representa- 

 tives from twenty affiliated societies present. 



Mr. P. Fox Lee writes : — 'The botanists mustered in force 

 and thoroughly enjoyed the pleasant walk, although there was 

 but little of special rarity in flowering plants noted. The 

 flora is a tj^pical Coal Measures one, but in such delightful 

 country, there must surely be in existence many other good 

 species than seem to have been already recorded. 



The best finds of the day in Cannon Hall Park and Deffer 

 Wood were Capnoides (Corydalis) clavimlata Druce, Myrio- 

 phyllum (sp. ? one of the W^ater Milfoils, not in flower), Hydro- 

 cotyle vulgaris L., Agrimony, and Scirpus setaceus L. The lake 

 in the Park was quite gay with the blossoms of the yellow 

 water lily and Sparganium simplex Huds., with Nitella opaca 

 Ag., also in the extensive grounds the Weymouth and Austrian 

 pines with Picea glaucu (bearing fine 9-inch cones) were flourish- 

 ing, in the company of huge British timber trees. 



Near the old disused canal on the way to Barnsley was a 

 grand display of the tall, erect racemes of Verbasmm Thapsus 

 L., the great Mullein. 



Coleoptera. — Mr. E, G. Bayford writes : — 'Notwithstand- 

 ing the beautiful weather, beetles did not appear to be par- 

 ticularly numerous. The following species, mostly common 



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